Who we are

Who we are

Corporate Partners

Dedalus activities are mostly financed and supported by national and local public bodies, but also by private companies and foundations:

Main public bodies
Department for Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Italy).
It supports activities in fight of trafficking, by financing social protection and integration programmes for victims.

Italian Home Office, through the SOLID European Fund.
It finances innovative projects for the Integration of Third Country Nationals.

Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare (Italy).
It financed an experimental microcredit project to promote self-employment of immigrants in Southern Italy;

Dedalus’ Staff is made up of economists, sociologists, psychologists, social operators, vocational trainers, cultural mediators and peer operators with proved experience in research, planning and management of social services.
Dedalus’ activities address problems related to gender, ethnicity and other form of discrimination, social exclusion of weak segments of population, violence and abuse.
Dedalus provides to its beneficiaries a wide range of services: information and guidance, cultural mediation in access to social and health services, social protection , shelter, counselling and training.

Dedalus is a non profit making organization born in 1981; in the first five years it has been mostly active in the promotion of the public debate on social and economic changes, mainly during presentations of books and public talks.
From 1986, when a group of sociologists joined as new members, Dedalus’ interests focuses on migration flows to Italy and particularly on migrants’ paths and strategies of insertion in the local labour market.
This activity engendered the development of a planning department and the promotion of social experimentation projects and new methodologies, as the introduction of the cultural mediation in the public services sector.
In 1999, Dedalus transformed into a social cooperative – as defined by the Italian law n. 381 of 1991 – working on the integration of migrants, through the design and the implementation of specific social services.

Dedalus activities are mostly financed and supported by national and local public bodies, but also by private companies and foundations:

Main public bodies
Department for Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (Italy).
It supports activities in fight of trafficking, by financing social protection and integration programmes for victims.

Italian Home Office, through the SOLID European Fund.
It finances innovative projects for the Integration of Third Country Nationals.

Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare (Italy).
It financed an experimental microcredit project to promote self-employment of immigrants in Southern Italy;